- OK, I hadn't heard of Isao Harimoto before looking at this card, but it appears that Harimoto is the only Japanese player to have reached 3000 hits in his Japanese career. Pretty outstanding seeing as the Japanese only play 80% of the games in a season that MLB plays.
- Love the photo on the card, it appears as if Ichiro is hitting another ball to left field.
- Currently, if you count his Japanese hits, Ichiro is ahead of Pete Rose all time by 111.
- Thought it was funny that Baseball Reference dot com lists Ichiro's positions as "Rightfielder and Relief Pitcher"
- Career game #31: Ichiro goes 1 for 4 to increase his hit streak to 13 games, but the Mariners lose to their expansion cousins 11-3. The Jays Darren Fletcher hits 2 HRs to power the Jays victory.
- Robert
- Premium stock? Nope, don't think so. It's just the regular card stock of the mid 90's with a fancy border and stamp.
- Would love to know who that Red was diving back into first base that has his face obscured. Maybe Reggie Sanders?
- Part of the Sportlots order I picked up a short time ago. I think I paid a quarter for this. Not bad compared to some other sites.
- Career homer #286 was hit 4/13/2002 off of KC's Darrell May. It was the 4th straight day that Jim had homered. It was a solo shot to pull the Indians to within 5-2. The Indians would go on to score 5 in the 8th and 1 in the 9th to win 8-7, raising their record to 11-1.
- Robert
- I love how this card scanned. Reminds me a bit of Topps' refractors. The colors that the scan brought out you really don't see on the card.
- Serial #'d 281/500. Right up my alley. You're going to see a lot of serial numbered cards of Fitzgerald on this blog over time. (Thanks Wes)
- I never really was a big football collector to begin with, but seeing the variety of sets and products that I've received so far of Fitzgerald, I'm a bit excited about learning more of these...
- Career catch #2: 2nd quarter of his first game against the Rams, he caught a 15 yard pass to get the Cards down to the Rams 14; they'd settle for a field goal. Larry's first 2 catches he's averaging 27 yards per grab. Not a bad start to a pro career.
- Robert
- I'm kind of excited to start collecting Larry Fitzgerald, I've followed him since back at his days at Pitt. The QB that threw to him, Tyler Palko, was the starting QB for the high school district that I lived in when I first moved to the US, so it was kind of cool for me to follow them along.
- Got this card as part of a 35 card lot on ebay. $7 shipped. Nice
- What really got me interested in learning more about Fitz is watching the Amazon Prime show All or Nothing. I was impressed with how hard Larry trains and how upset he was when they lost the conference final to the Panthers a few years back.
- Larry has 1234 catches to date in his career. I'm going to try and get each one here on the blog.
- Catch #1: talk about no delay. 1st game, 9/12/04 against the Rams, Larry catches a 37 yard pass on his very first play from Josh McCown.
- Robert
- Easily one of the best jersey cards in my collection. Nice big piece, red and the card is serial #'d 19 which is Joe's jersey number.
- Only one copy if this card currently on COMC, it's listed at $11.25. I don't remember what I paid for mine...
- For all the years that Joe spent in the NHL, he managed only two 50 goal seasons, 1995-96 (51 goals) and 2000-01 (54). It's interesting that the 2 Stanley Cups that the Avalanche won came during those 2 seasons.
- Robert
- This is a great looking card in my opinion and I was quite happy to pull it out of a pack of Donruss this year.
- Speaking of 2018, this is the first '18 card that I've added to any of my PC's. Outside of Larry Fitzgerald, I don't have any PC's that are current players so the influx of new cards isn't heavy.
- 3 copies of this card on COMC, very tightly priced between $2.19 & $2.24. Another reason I was happy to get this from a pack.
- Scary: there are 13 cards/variations from Donruss available right now. Some nice looking cards, but it's a little overkill if you ask me.
- Robert
- Found this while searching through some boxes for cards. Great add, even though I didn't have to buy it.
- I'm curious to find out where Topps got the 8.2 WAR they show for Andrew in 2003. Baseball Reference shows his WAR at 7.9 and Fangraphs shows 8.1.
- Kind of curious to see why the range of prices on COMC for this card are so wide. Cheapest is 95 cents, the most expensive is $4. BTW, the $4 was reduced by 25% when I did the search, so the original price was $5.25. Crazy.
- Robert
- I'm assuming that's a practice swing, because if it isn't, then Jim just hit a foul ball into the first base seats.
- This is the 5th different set from 1997 Donruss that I've featured on the blog. Those were the days.
- Another 18 cent PC add. Gotta love it. I need to try and find more of these...
- Career home run #285 was hit 4/12/02, the 3rd consecutive day he went yard. This time he hit it off of KC's Jeff Suppan, a 2 run shot in the 4th to put the Indians ahead 2-1. That would be all the Indians needed as they went on to win 3-1, to go 10 and 1 start the season. CC Sabathia would strike out 9 over 6 innings for his 2nd win of the season.
- Robert
- Why I love this Pacific design? There isn't much to it. Borderless photo, logo in the lower left which doesn't take over the card, name and company logo in silver. Simple, plain, elegant.
- Bio on the back: It's in bullets, just like these posts!! Led the Avs in PPG in 97-98 with 12. Again, simple.
- Checked COMC, 4 copies of this for sale. 3 of them between 86 and 90 cents, just about right. 1 copy at $1.75; hope he has a lot of time on his hands, because that's going to sit a long time.
- Robert
- You can sort of see it in the scan, but the rainbow effect is more evident in hand. If there were more of the effect on the front of the card, it would look really good. With just the last name and the Stadium Club logo having the effect, it's just OK for me.
- At least I only paid 18 cents for it on Sportlots. Love getting PC cards for under a quarter.
- Career homer #284 was hit the day after #283, against the Twins. Kyle Lohse was the victim this time, a 2 run shot that broke a 2-2 tie in the bottom of the 3rd, and the Indians would score 4 more in the 4th to chase Kyle on their way to an 8-4 win. This would make a winner of Bartolo Colon(3-0) who is still pitching 16 years later.
- Robert
